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MMFS Module 8: Turn Pasture into Product

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  1. Chapter 8.1 - Know your feed supply

    Key decisions, critical actions and benchmarks
  2. Review annual rainfall patterns
  3. Determine your current pasture growth pattern
  4. Determine variability in your pasture growth
  5. Modify your pasture supply
  6. Deferred grazing through containment feeding
  7. Utilise cereal crops
  8. Chapter 8.2 - Know your animal demand
    Key decisions, critical actions and benchmarks
  9. Estimate feed quality
  10. Estimate pasture mass/feed on offer
  11. Set annual targets for livestock classes and pasture
  12. Assess stock condition
  13. Set trigger points and plan to meet your targets
  14. Monitor your plan
  15. Modify the annual animal demand curve
  16. Time of lambing
  17. Stock sales and purchases
  18. Time of shearing
  19. Chapter 8.3 - Match animal demand to feed supply and minimise risk
    Key decisions, critical actions and benchmarks
  20. Introduction
  21. Plan your feed year
  22. Does pasture supply meet animal demand?
  23. What animal factors can I change?
  24. Complete regular feed budgets (measure and monitor)
  25. Manage the grazing system to control stock intake
  26. Manage the grazing system to maintain optimum pasture levels
  27. Implement tactical grazing
  28. Are paddocks unevenly grazed?
  29. Increase pasture utilisation on part of your property
  30. Plan for drought
MMFS Module 8: Turn Pasture into Product Deferred grazing through containment feeding
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Deferred grazing through containment feeding

Meat & Livestock Australia January 21, 2022

Establishing additional leaf area on pastures immediately after the break of season can significantly increase pasture growth rates leading into the growing season, and total pasture production for the remainder of the season. This can be done through holding stock within containment areas on a full ration.  Low-cost rations utilising hay or high-quality straw can be supplemented with grain or silage to meet animal requirements through this period. The length of time, and therefore cost, of containment feeding will be determined by seasonal conditions and should be reviewed annually. Allowing pastures to reach 1,000 kg of feed on offer will provide them with the opportunity for optimum plant growth rates.

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